"With You I Found Myself"

Chapter Seven: Damn you Shiny things why must you be so…SHINY! (Part two)

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"In time all will be healed."
With those final words Lani felt herself begin to shoot strait up. She looked to see a tiny speck of light, she began to race up faster and the speck began to grow and grow. Lani braced herself for impact, and then all went white.

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Lani shot up from her bed covered in a cold sweat. "What the hell was that about" she thought to herself. She brought her arm towards her forehead to wipe some of the sweat from her brow only notice a crimson liquid staining her arm. With a slight gasp she slowly opened her hand to reveal a gash that looked slightly healed on her hand.

She began to panic "Bu-but…that was only a dream! DREAMS are NOT suppose to do THAT!" her voice said ringing through her head, she felt dizzy and nauseous. The room began to spin as she quickly ran to the bathroom only to throw up last night's dinner. Lani moaned sitting on the ground as she flushed the toilet and leaned against the wall with her eyes closed, "What's happening to me?" she asked herself.

After a few minute she stood up and walked over to the sink and began to wash the now dry blood from her arm. She grabbed her toothbrush and smeared some toothpaste on it and began to brush her teeth off handedly. She made a quick glance into the mirror only to see…FANGS! She quickly did a double take noticing nothing there. "Ugh…great I'm going insane…fan-fucking-tastic." She muttered to herself spitting the toothpaste into the sink.

She walked back into her room and sat on the edge of her bed taking deep breaths, "Come on Lani snap out of it!" she said to herself. She glanced at the clock seeing: 3:34am Sunday. "Well might as well attempt to sleep," she said with a sigh. She curled up into a ball and slowly drifted to a light sleep.

Soon what only seemed like a couple seconds, she heard her door slam open. Lani's eyes shot open as she sat up a little disoriented. She looked towards the door to reveal Amber Ann leaning against the doorframe with her arms crossed looking at her nails, "Your loser freak of a 'friend' is here…ugh only you could make friends with someone even the losers think is a loser." Amber Ann said with a distasteful look on her face.

Lani ignored the comment and quickly jumped out of bed grabbed a random shirt and pants and ran to the bathroom. "How could I forget about the project?" she muttered to herself. Within minutes she emerged running back to her room slipping on her worn down scuffed chucks and grabbed her backpack. She quickly ran past Amber Ann quickly saying to her "We may be losers but at least we don't wear Grannie panties! Later!" she said running out the door "Ugh all hell will pay for that comment tonight" she muttered to herself hearing Amber Ann's voice yelling after her.

She ran down the driveway seeing Jade in the distance, "Hey!" she yelled meeting up with her.

"Yah hey to you too Ms. 'Jade don't be late only for me to be late instead'!" she yelled.

"Sorry, sorry!" Lani said putting her lands up in defense

Jade smiled and did a quick shrug "Hey no worries...so where to?" she asked.

"Oh right!" Lani said pulling her bag from her shoulders and beginning to rummage through it, "Victory!" she yelled pulling out a piece of paper. "See I knew I heard of a shrine around here about the Shikon jewel!" she said with a goofy smile on her face

"Congratulations Lani" Jade said sarcastically "…so where is this shrine?"

"Hmm well according to this…it's about a mile from school" Lani said while looking at the map "So we should take the bus from here" pointing one the map "to this stop" pointing at an area "and then walk for about a block, and there we are!"

"Alrighty then!" Jade said snapping her fingers "Lets get this whole 'active learning' started…woo."

"Jeeze don't hold back your excitement" Lani said rolling her eyes

"Yah, yah" Jade said punching Lani on the shoulder slightly.

o0o0o

After a few minutes on the crowded bus Jade and Lani both arrived at a bus stop and began to walk towards the shrine.

"Hey Lani, you ok?" asked Jade

"Huh? Oh yah I'm fine."

"B.S…you can't honestly tell me you walking around with this glazed over look is 'fine'" said Jade who stepped right in front of Lani stopping their walking. "-Sigh- seriously Lani, talk to me…what's wrong?"

Lani stared at her only friend she'd ever had, "should I tell her?" she wondered.

Seeing the internal conflict going back and forth on Lani's face almost made Jade want to laugh from the faces she was making, but she remind quiet until she received an answer.

"-Sigh- listen Jade it's really nothing big…ever since the day that police officer found me and brought me to that orphanage, I've…" she said trailing off

"You've?"

"…I've kind of been haunted by these reoccurring nightmares…and it's always been then same thing…but lately…" Lani paused wondering if she should continue she looked up at Jade who gave her an encouraging smile, "…they've been different and when I say different I mean different."

"Uh…better leave out that whole blood down my arm, the gash in my hand, and throwing up thing…" thought Lani. "See nothing big, like I said." Lani said going around Jade and continuing walking towards the shrine.

"-Sigh- whatever you said Lani" said Jade as she stared off at the retreating figure.

o0o0o

By the time they had reached the shrine the tension that was once there slowly melted away, "Hey Jade, can you go check with the shrine keeper to make sure its alright if we look around?" asked Lani taking in the sites before her.

As Jade left towards the Shine keeper's home Lani began to wander looking at the grounds, "Wow everything looks so…old…" she muttered to herself right after she said that she gave herself a mental slap "out of all the comments I could have said I said 'old' that's something Amber Ann would say! Of course it's old! Ugh" she murmured.

Her eyes soon fell upon a tree, and by the looks of it a very ancient tree, "I'm surprised it still stands" she thought she soon saw a little sign near the tree reading: Go-Shinboku Tree

"Hm…the Go-Shinboku Tree…why do you look so familiar…" she muttered towards the tree, then began to reach over towards the tree and touched it lightly with the tips of her fingers.

All of a sudden like she was hit with 1000 bolts of electricity, she left like a mouth were sucking on her very soul pulling herself towards the tree. Soon like a million little screens of movie clips flew past her very eyes, but they weren't movies they looked like, "…memories?" her voice echoed.

She reached out and touched one of the screens and she was soon sucked into the world only waking up to be… "Underwater?" thought Lani in a panic

"AH!" Lani screamed only to receive a mouth full of water. She felt herself being whipped around under the water, not knowing where was up or where was down. Lani closed her eyes fearing the worse until; "a voice?" thought Lani "Wait! It's a VOICE!" all of a sudden she felt a hand grab onto her pulling herself up till finally she hit the surface.

Lani started to cough up water and breathed in the precious air.

"Are you INSANE! What were you thinking Lani! You could have been KILLED!" said the voice of her savior.

She looked up to see a pair of green eyes, Lani opened up her mouth to talk but instead was interrupted by a different voice that came out of her mouth that defiantly was not her own.

"Shippo-chan!" said a voice of a little girl who quickly jumped up and latched onto him.

The little girl began to bawl her little eyes on top of the little boy's shoulder

"Aw, come on Lani, you know I hate it when you cry" said Shippo rubbing her back softly.

Soon she felt another pull and this time a different voice, "Lani? Lani SNAP OUT OF IT" she recognized the voice to be Jades. Just as quickly as she had came into the memory she came out of it. All the colors swirled together till finally a tingly sensation ran through her body and her waking up to Jades face staring at her with worry.

"Ugh what happened?" Lani moaned rubbing her head.

"I donno, you tell me! I come back to tell you the 'ok' and I see you twitching grasping onto that tree! You fucking scared the shit out of me!" yelled Jade.

Taking in a deep breath to try to calm herself down Jade looked at Lani then at the tree then back to Lani, "-Deep breath-exhale- Lani…are you SURE you're ok? Because I was ready to go scream bloody murder for help if you hadn't come out of it when you did."

"I-…Yes I'm fine…I guess from all these nightmares I haven't really gotten any decent sleep…I'm sorry Jade…" Lani said with her eyes downcast.

"-Sigh- As long as you're alright…"-

"Yes, I'll be fine" Lani said hastily

"-Sigh- whatever you say Lani…so yah…the shrine keeper said it's fine. Their only request was to stay out of the well house…I think the lady was trying to creep me out by saying that it would disturbed the spirits and yada, yada…" ranted Jade "but then again you gotta admit that well house screams 'open' 'open' 'open'" Jade said making 'open' sound light and echo-y.

Lani rolled her eyes at her friend's attempt to make it sound mystical, "Well we should probably obey their request you know" said Lani in that know-it-all voice

"Psht where's the fun in that? Aw come on Lani? I mean doesn't it make you wonder what's in there?" said Jade taunting

"Jade you know we shouldn't so what's the point of trying? So we can say we got kicked off a shrine?" Lani retorted

"Sure!" said jade with enthusiasm "That's the spirit!"

"You're impossible," said Lani rolling her eyes.

Walking around the shrine while Jade snapped pictures for their 'visual aid' did get boring fast. Lani soon found herself staring at the well "Ah! Jades poisoning my mind! No, Nope, we mustn't… must resist!" she thought to herself.

"Hm…hey look a caption sign" she muttered to herself "Hey Jade over here" she said loudly.

Both girls made their way over to the sign next to the well. As Jade snapped a couple of pictures Lani read the caption out loud: "'The Bone Eater's Well'…"

Soon after reading the caption she felt what seemed to be a pulse coming from the well.

"Ja-Jade…" stammered Lani

"Ye-Lani? Lani what's wrong…? You're shaking!"

"Can't you feel that?" Lani whispered

"Feel what?" Jade closed her eyes and started to feel something very faint but it was there none the less, "-gasp-...what the fu-"

Soon Lani felt a tug at her pants she looked down just in time to see a fat black cat grab her key chain connected to her… "Ack! My keys!" she said chasing the cat with Jade in hot pursuit.

Finally catching the cat, Lani pulled her keys out of its mouth as it hissed at her and scratched her. "Ouch! Stupid cat!" Lani shouted shaking her hand back and forth.

"Hey Lani you ok?" said Jade catching up

"Yah stupid cat scratched me." Lani looked up to see Jade looking very uncomfortable

"Jade what's wro-" suddenly it hit her…they were in the well house. "…oh shi-" Lani was cut off with a sudden pull on her back Jade noticed this too. Jade quickly grabbed onto Lani's hand and held on as Lani was being pulled towards the well.

"What the hell is going on!" yelled Jade holding on dear life to her best friends hands

"I don't kno-"

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" both girls screamed as the pulling force pulled them both into the well, both tumbling to the bottom.

Still screaming they both grabbed onto each other and closed their eyes and braced for a bone crushing impact…but it never happened. Both girls opened their eyes to see them being surrounded in a vortex of purples and blues. Together they looked in awe as the lights surrounded them, then it started to speed up, soon Lani heard a familiar voice, "In time all will be healed..."

Faster and faster they went till suddenly everything went white.

o0o0o

Lani woke up to find another body on top of her stomach and panic began to sit in, recognizing it was Jade she calmed down. Lani sat up carefully placing Jade on the ground, "Ugh what happened?" she murmured to herself, soon memories of the well came flashing back and she soon jumped up. She lightly slapped Jade on the face to try and wake her but no luck.

"-Sigh- well I guess that odd ability of strength will actually come in handy" Lani said to herself.

Slowly and carefully lifting Jade over her shoulder she looked up to see a "…Blue sky? But the well was completely covered…wasn't it?" she thought, Lani saw vines lining the well and tugged on it to see if it was stable, "Well it's better then staying down here…" thought Lani

She grabbed onto the vine and started to climb up, which was a lot harder with Jade over her shoulder. Till finally she reached the lip of the well, she then pushed Jade off her shoulder and as gently as possible put her on the ground till finally hoisting herself out of the well.

She sat there leaning against the well catching her breath while looking at her surroundings…"Yah defiantly not in Tokyo anymore" she said taking in the breath taking view of the forest.

Suddenly Lani heard the dropping of a bucket and a gasp.

"-Gasp-…Lani…? Is-is it really you?" said a voice.

Lani quickly turned around to meet the face of…


Woo Hoo! Cliff hanger

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